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For some reason the scores were poor on Tuesday. Given the weather of the past 3 days I can’t remember the weather on Tuesday.

Andy Phillips was the winner once again on a count-back from Russell “Gus The Good Guy” Wenzel (2^nd time in a row for Gus) both scoring 32. The rest of the field failed to reach 30 with Bob Taylor on 28, colourful local identity Philip “Thomo” Thomson 27 then David “Jack” Webster & Chris “Critta” Waters tied on 26, Critta getting the Mars Bar on a count-back.

Once again the handicapper took pity awarding extra strokes to Andy Phillips & yet another one to Bob Taylor. Gordon “The Chook Man” Kakoschke will not be pleased!

Colourful local identity Philip “Thomo” Thomson finally broke through for a narrow win after months in the wilderness. Thomo scored 37 stableford points as did Russell “Gus The Good Guy” Wenzel, with Thomo taking the voucher on a count-back. It is good to see Thomo outscore someone on the back 9. Neil Webster was next with 36 followed by Club Champion Michael “Tickers” Tickner on 34. There was a gap to Andy Phillips & Matt McAuley on 31. Alas the remaining players must have had a bad day with Bob Taylor on 26 & Dick Secomb receiving the Mars Bar with 24.

The handicapper could see that some players needed help and gave extra strokes to Michael Tickner, Matt McAuley and Bob Taylor.

 

Six players fronted for 9 holes of social golf on Thursday for what turned out to be a tight contest. Colourful local identity Philip “Thomo” Thomson got away to a flyer with birdies on the first 2 holes but choked over the last few holes once again. Russell “Gus The Good Guy” Wenzel set steadily, while Andy Philips scored a few good pars to stay close to Thomo. David “Jack” Webster got away to a very slow start but flew home scoring 15 points over the last 6 holes. In the end Andy & Thomo tied with 21 points but Thomo’s failure over the final stages saw Andy win on a count back. Gus was third with a solid 19 just ahead of the fast finishing Jack with 18. Peter Mengerson struggled a little taking the Mars Bar with 15.

Since returning from a 4 month break with no golf Andy has dominated the leader boards.

On Saturday 9 players hit off in good conditions, but finished the day with front row seats to a spectacular thunderstorm, ensuring that they were wet through when they returned to the clubhouse. Nonetheless there was one outstanding score and one good score. Andy Phillips carded a score of 5 up against par, continuing his good form since a long break on holidays. The handicapper has acted swiftly reducing Andy’s handica[ to 16. Runner up was David “Jack” Webster with +2 while the rest finished on the other side of the ledger. Gus “The Good Guy” Wenzel 7 “Mad” Max Wiech finished with -1 closely followed by Matt “Oppy” Opperman on -2. The Good Guy’s GA handicap drifted out and he is coming perilously close blowing out to 12, while Mad Max managed to shave a few points off his GA. Peter Stockman & Club Champion Michael “Tickers” Tickner” finished with -5 followed by Shawn “Sheep” Rayson with -7. The Mars Bar went to Bob Taylor with -10.

Unfortunately your correspondent did not get any photos of the storm as he was safely tucked up by the fire.

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Andy Phillips won Thursday’s event after an official corrected his score card. Andy tied with Russell “Gus The Good Guy” Wennzel with 2o points but beat the Good Guy on a count back. Gordon “The Chook Man” Kakoschke was one point away with 19, followed by Don Lloyd on 17. The rest of the field did not fare so well with a gap of 3 to Dick Cleland on 14, Bob Taylor 12, & Mark “Mouldy” Millward (show day) 11. Andrew Hall took the Mars Bar with 9 points.

In the best weather since Autumn, only one player’s golf matched the weather. Club President Dick Cleland was working on a new secret and returned a card of 41 stableford points. This was 6 points clear of runner up Andy Phillips on 35 not matching his Saturday score achieved in trying conditions. Gordon “The Chook Man” Kakoschke was third on 34. The Chook Man got away to a good start but choked badly on the back 9. There was then a big gap to Bob Taylor 31, colourful local identity Philip “Thomo” Thomson 30, with a tie for the Mars Bar between Neil Webster & Russell “Gus The Good Guy” Wenzel both with 29.  Gus The Good Guy took the chocolate on a count back

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The course was swept with 45 kph winds on Saturday with the odd shower of rain for good measure, and most of the scores were ordinary  at best.

Matthew “Oppy” Opperman & Andy Phillips showed that you could still score in these conditions both finishing with 37 stableford points. Oppy took out first place on a countback, Andy having trouble finishing off once more, being in a winning position on the 18th tee he could only manage 1 point to close. Scores fell away after this with colourful local identity Philip “Thomo” Thomson best of the rest on 35, then another 2 stroke gap to Gordon “The Chook Man” Kakoschke 33, Phil Arthur 32 another gap to Chris “Critta” Waters & Russell “Gus “The Good Guy” Wenzel on 30. The rest failed to reach 30 with Club President Dick Cleland & David “Jack” Webster on 29, Mark “Mouldy” Millward 27, Michael “Tickers” Tickner on 26 & “Mad” Max Wiech took the Mars Bar with 25